Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[HVC]

... and the guy in the lower ad appears to be holding a Cricket Bat!

Really, that's what this is all about: making America safe ... from the horrors of Cricket. 

clearly you've never been beaten by a two-by-four before

[Malthus]

... and the guy in the lower ad appears to be holding a Cricket Bat!

Really, that's what this is all about: making America safe ... from the horrors of Cricket. 

clearly you've never been beaten by a two-by-four before

I've never played Cricket either. 

[garbon]

Smug Canadians looking down on Cricket!

[Valmy]

So much for 'model minorities'.

I mean one would generally think it would be a good thing for Indians and Chinese to take over our schools. We aren't doing a great job with them.

[crazy canuck]

Cricket fields! 

Bunch of racist morons...

[Camerus]

So much for 'model minorities'.

I mean one would generally think it would be a good thing for Indians and Chinese to take over our schools. We aren't doing a great job with them.

I'd love my future hypothetical kid to go to a school with a large east Asian and Indian population.

[Razgovory]

That bullshit really turns my stomach.

[CountDeMoney]

I'd love my future hypothetical kid to go to a school with a large east Asian and Indian population.

https://youtu.be/oqDX55kyA9M

[crazy canuck]

Apparently both won 

[Grey Fox]

Excellent, America deserves a strong Cricket fields development.

[sbr]

Apparently both won 

All 4 candidates mentiined in the posters Jacob posted last page won.

Also an open trans woman beat the author of the VA bathroom bill.  The boyfriend of a gun victim beat a candidate with an A rating from NRA .  Civil rights attorney who sued police departments won DA of Philadelphia.

Lots of good stuff happened last night.

[Jacob]

Apparently Trump-care is doing really well right now: https://youtu.be/mlZNmtZdTlg

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/359011-obamacare-signups-surge-in-early-days-to-set-new-record?amp

[Barrister]

A buddy of mine from fraternity days posted a long screed about how the Weinstein effect is becoming a witchhunt, and while Louis CK is a pervert and pathetic, he's now the subject of a "neo-puritanical witch hunt for any behaviour deemed even borderline risky or offensive."

*sigh*

And normally my FB feed is surprisingly drama-free.

[Tonitrus]

While it's fine that sexual abusers are being called out, the only thing that bothers me about it is that in most of the cases there is either is no legal due process, or that the media coverage doesn't/wont care about it by the time it gets to that point (if it ever does). 

It does almost create some kind of sense that having enough accusers is enough to bring someone down (even those who deserve to be so)...with no care about whether or not is ever proven legally.  The mayor of Seattle was brought down this way recently as well.

Are most of the accusations true, and do these guys deserve what they get?  Yeah, most likely.  Does it bother me that most of the consequences they are suffering are coming without any legal due process?  Yes, and it should bother a society based on law too...but that doesn't appear to be bothering anyone at all.

[Admiral Yi]

While it's fine that sexual abusers are being called out, the only thing that bothers me about it is that in most of the cases there is either is no legal due process, or that the media coverage doesn't/wont care about it by the time it gets to that point (if it ever does). 

It does almost create some kind of sense that having enough accusers is enough to bring someone down (even those who deserve to be so)...with no care about whether or not is ever proven legally.  The mayor of Seattle was brought down this way recently as well.

Are most of the accusations true, and do these guys deserve what they get?  Yeah, most likely.  Does it bother me that most of the consequences they are suffering are coming without any legal due process?  Yes, and it should bother a society based on law too...but that doesn't appear to be bothering anyone at all.

The consequences they are suffering are commercial, not legal.  As long as consumers are free to spend their money on whatever they want, what you described will continue.

Surely it wouldn't make any sense to require people to continue watching House of Cards or Louis CK's comedy shows until they are proven guilty.